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PREMIUM-Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as Training for Death (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Is There No Such Thing as Neutrals?

All forms of change are involving things that are constantly transforming between their contraries. If becoming larger didn't balance out becoming smaller, then everything would just become smaller and smaller. By implication, all the souls always existed. We got orecycl souls. Can't just throw them away and invent new ones. There's a difference between an empirical and not empirical realm. Our living soul must come from something to get there. So i think this theory of opposites comes from recollection. It's like the idea that life comes from death, but it's not the same thing. Everything has to provide fertilizer for things to grow again.

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